Faulty UPS blamed for Equinix Data Center Outage in London

📅 July 21, 2016 - A data center outage on Wednesday at a London Telecity facility was blamed on an issue with the UPS system. Recently Telecity was acquired by Equinix and they issued an email to customers stating the UPS system was the reason for the failure.

The company didn't report what went wrong with the UPS. Customers suffered connectivity issues due to the outage, which resulted in about 10% of user attempts to reach a website failing.

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